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The new covenantThe nevv covenant
The new covenant, or the saints portion A treatise unfolding the all-sufficiency of God, and mans uprightness, and the covenant of grace. delivered in fourteen sermons upon Gen. 17. 1. 2. Whereunto are adjoined four sermons upon Eccles. 9.1. 2. 11. 12. By the late faithful and worthy minister of Jesus Christ John Preston. Dr. in Divinity, chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty, master of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolns Inn.The nevv covenant, or the saints portion A treatise vnfolding the all-sufficiencie of God, and mans uprightnes, and the covenant of grace. delivered in fourteene sermons vpon Gen. 17. 1. 2. Wherevnto are adioyned foure sermons vpon Eccles. 9.1. 2. 11. 12. By the late faithfull and worthie minister of Iesus Christ Iohn Preston. Dr. in Divinitie, chaplaine in ordinary to his Maiestie, maister of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, and sometimes preacher of Lincolnes Inne.
London: printed by I. Dawson for Nicolas Bourne, 1629
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
You must know,1 that though this be the way in general, yet, in particular, that which must teach it thee, is to consider, first, there is a certain tract that God hath made for us to walk in, a certain path that he hath chalked out, that which he hath described in his Word, that which all the Saints have trodden before us, both those that lived in former times, whose examples are related to us, and those that live among us: First, there is a tract that God himself hath made, the way of his judgements are sine vestigijs &c. but the way of his Commandments are as a beaten tract, as a beaten road; A way that himself hath made plain, by many directions, by many way-marks that he hath set, that men might know them, and likewise by the course of all the Saints, which is like a beaten way that is trodden by many thousands, from generation to generation, that is one thing that you are to look •o•see, if you be in that way, in the old way, in the way that the Law leads to; in the way that all the Saints have go•e in.
You must know,1 that though this be the way in generall, yet, in particular, that which must teach it thee, is to consider, first, there is a certaine tract that God hath made for vs to walke in, a certaine path that he hath chalked out, that which he hath described in his Word, that which all the Saints haue trodden before vs, both those that lived in former times, whose examples are related to vs, and those that liue among vs: First, there is a tract that God himselfe hath made, the way of his judgements are sine vestigijs &c. but the way of his Commandements are as a beaten tract, as a beaten roade; A way that himselfe hath made plaine, by many directions, by many way-markes that he hath set, that men might know them, and likewise by the course of all the Saints, which is like a beaten way that is trodden by many thousands, from generation to generation, that is one thing that you are to looke osee, if you be in that way, in the old way, in the way that the Law leads to; in the way that all the Saints haue goe in.